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Uphampton Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0033
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0033 (33)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Docklow and Hampton Wafer
- National Grid reference
- SO 570 583
- Latitude
- 52.22123
- Longitude
- -2.63085
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northeast and northwest
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Herefordshire 1238 (second identifier 1238)
- National record
- record SO 55 NE 3; monument 110631
- Wikidata
- Q31114107
Sources
References
- Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012. Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3, 44, London: HMSO.